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arts BOOK REVIEW Toy Monster: The big, bad world of Mattel Jerry Oppenheimer Welcome to the world of Mattel. Where real-life Barbies and real-life Kens, built and destroyed and built again one of the biggest toy companies in the world. Toy Monster is no fairy story, although it does include a castle or two, but instead is an in-depth look behind the scenes, where the glitz and glamour of Barbie takes on a much darker shade of blonde. In the year of Mattel’s 50th anniversary, New York Times writer Jerry Oppenheimer has written a fascinating account of the company. It is based on interviews with executives and a review of public and private records. Most interesting is its conception and early years: a tale of two entrepreneurs with sharp ideas, a keen busi- ness sense and an abundance of ambition starting up a toy company.Then enters the creative genius, the “Father of Barbie”. This book tells his story more so than any other, but then the “Mother of Barbie” Ruth Handler has a h a already told her own. It is the wild ways of Jack Ryan and the inter- i Wheels and Barbie that creations such as Hot W are the heart of this story. Cutting into more recent times with financial and health scandals, industrial espionage and sabotage, Toy Monster covers an extensive range of facts and details, but loses a bit of the personality. The corporate shark culture is laid bare and the dynamic company executives scrutinised. Oppenheimer has written a comprehensive insight into the games and scandals of the toy industry that aren’t always fun for all. ?John Wiley & Sons Incorporated, RRP $42.95 – Melissa Mack POET’S CORNER Compiled by John Miles Miss Mitchell’s Comet Maria Mitchell, 1818-89, a Quaker & astronomer discovered C/1847 T1, “Miss Mitchell’s Comet.” Not a breath of air not a whisper of cloud rustled the stillness of night as she climbed towards the sky to follow the movement of stars. Her eye to the lens she gazed on a light above the North Star not part of the pattern held in her memory. A new comet moved over the sky a faint point of light captured by her eye named in her honour. As her fame reached beyond she searched in the darkness for wonders to be found from heights above her own not framed by the sky. Joan Fenney’s poetry collection, Marilyn Monroe by the Brooklyn Bridge & Other Portraits will be published by Ginninderra Press this year. Readers’ unpublished poems to 30 lines can be emailed, with postal address, to poetscorner@independentweekly.com.au or posted with an SAE to Poetry Editor, Independent Weekly,GPO Box 114, Adelaide 5001. A poetry book is awarded to each contributor. Solutions from 10 4 1 6 9 2 8 3 7 5 3 8267915 O 7 5439862 D 9 2518374 M 4 1382756 N 6 3745198 U 1 9854627 B E H A V E U E 8 4926531 K I N G D O M E E 2 6173489 S L A N G N O E A P I C R A S H D I E R A B I D L Y A A I U N E A N D E R T H A L P I N C I S E H L I T A L Y G T I C O U T D O I N G M E N U U G N P I N T O B I 5 7691243 R I N G T A I L I M A R I N E R A A O A L B D E F R A U D A I M N E E E T A T E R R A R A A S R N E E D I E R K E G A Z E T T E R I D N A S S E S S U T H A I R L E S S R E A U D I O S T F S T R A F E D H E D I B O N D S E E I C E D G I E R S D A M P E N E D I R A S H E E R L Y I A D V A N C E M E N T L C E D R E A D MAY CONCERTS Adelaide Baroque – 2 May Soundstream Contemporary Music Ensemble – 2 & 3 May Musica Viva – 7 May TRIOZ – 17 May Australian String Quartet – 18 May Ngeringa Farm Concerts – 24 May Recitals Australia – 28 & 30 May Visit www.cmia.com.au for more information or to request a free January to June 2009 brochure company conflicts and c c April 24 - 30, 2009 The Independent Weekly 32 29 www.independentweekly.com.au The Australian String Quartet performing at the Coriole Music Festival. here’s a smell of wine as you walk into the Coriole Music Festival, which is, I suppose, entirely consistent with its location in a barrel room at the Coriole Vineyard, perched amid a rolling landscape of trees, vines and gardens. However, the organisers insist this is no cultural booze-up. Says musical director Christopher Burrell: “We try and keep people’s focus on the music”. “At a lot of these winery concerts, you have a champagne before you go in and the music’s sort of incidental; it’s the opposite here,” he explains. “Here, you have a coffee before you go in, and people are really totally absorbed by the music … it’s a serious musical experience.” And, indeed, it is a festival peopled by serious musical practitioners, among them mezzo-soprano Sally-Anne Russell, pianists Michael Kieran Harvey, Arabella Teniswood-Harvey and Sharolyn Kimmorley, violinist Miwako Abe and the Adelaide Chamber Singers. “It’s a festival where the audience can Vintage performance T BACKSTAGE Tom Richardson come to the three concerts, have a meal with the performers, and can talk with and get to know them,” says Burrell. The festival started in 1999, dedicated to presenting three concerts over a single weekend once a year. According to Burrell, “the idea is to take over where Musica Viva ends”. “The concept is to explore in some depth a particular region of the world, or a period or style of music,” he says. Whether it be Viennese, English or Russian, the festival aims to “give audi- ences a kind of complete experience, if you like”. This year’s theme is Eastern European music, from the farthest flung reaches of the likes of Poland, Hungary and Estonia. “There’s some really fantastic composers from there,” Burrell enthuses. Among those celebrated are Dvorak, Bartok, Liszt and Grieg. “A lot of those composers were keen on the folk music of their region, and a lot of it was incorporated in their writing,” says Burrell. The concert location adds to the mystique of the occasion. For most of the year, the venue is used for storing wine barrels, which are removed specially for the occasion. It’s a room that’s used for barrels for the rest of the year “It’s a small room,” says Burrell. “It holds 200 comfortably and can squeeze in 210 or 220 if really pushed.” As such, it has “very sensitive acoustics … when there’s a very soft piece or soft moment, you can hear everything just perfectly”. As such, the choice for the Sunday finale is an interesting one; Bela Bartok’s Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion. Appropriately, Burrell describes one of the pianists, Kieren Harvey, as “dynamic and sort of a risk-taker”. “He pushes the barriers,” says Burrell. And clearly, the work will push the barriers of the delicate acoustics in the Coriole barrel room. “We’re taking a bit of a risk as to how that will go in the small space,” concedes Burrell. But, as with the festival itself, it is no doubt a risk worth taking. ??The 2009 Coriole Music Festival is at Coriole Vineyards, Chaffeys Rd, McLaren Vale on Saturday May 2 and Sunday May 3.